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Ledoux, Claude Nicolas

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Ledoux, Claude Nicolas klōd nēkôlä´ lədo͞o´ [key], 1736–1806, French architect. He built palaces and various public buildings, among them the tollhouses ( barrières ) around Paris (1784). His main work was the planning of an ideal city, Chaux, for the salt mines of the Franche-Comté; it was never built. His fame and importance, however, rest chiefly on his treatise L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation (1804).